Da yard

My mom was suppose to do the front retaining wall as my 'house warming present'. That didn't happen. Then Holly was going to take it over, but nearly 200 feet of weeds and unsettled soil hindered her. However, the wall needed to be done. Knowing it would take a few years for the plants to add curb appeal, I had to start this year.

This lead me to think: who do I know that knows enough about plants, but can keep me in line. Auntie Shelly! Shelly has an amazing way of keeping me in line. She has this strange thing where she makes me clean up after a project is over. I fight, but in the end, I feel a lot better.

It was a big task, but Shelly had a couple days off. This was the start:

Hotdog!

Holly and I were sitting in the back yard when we say a small bunny. He was eating a small daisy. It was super cute.

He was a very small bunny. His mother probably died and left him to fend for himself. He sat in the back yard and ate daisys. He would start at the stem and nom until the flower hit his mouth, then he stopped.

This week in Art

With the new room, I had to find things to put on the walls. I believe that the art on a wall makes the room complete.

I already put most of the pictures I already owned on the walls in my house so I had to find new pictures. It was late and I knew I wouldn't find what I really wanted. On one of the walls I put my dad's first violin. It looks antique, but it is not. He bought it at a garage sale and still had nail polish marks for finger placements.

I just needed something for above my bed. I always have more fabric then the average bear so I used it as a canvas. Yes, it is not high art, but it adds the balance needed for the bedroom.

I moved

I got really sick of my bedroom. When I moved in I took the master bedroom as my bedroom. I removed the closet thinking I would replace it in a timely manner. Then I thought I would put in new flooring and molding. However, I failed to do any of that. I wanted to, but then I came up with new ideas for the room. A master bedroom is a selling point and I don't want it to be a room I would just like.

I bit the bullet and moved. I decided on the smaller craftroom because it had a closet and finished floors. It was a great idea!

First, I had to repaint. I thought it would look good to paint vertical strips on the far wall. That ended up looking very bad. The only other thing I had to do was move everything from the old room to the new. It sucked, but when it was done, the room ended up looking great!

I love my new room! It is great! Small, but great.

Graceful

I thought cats were graceful. I thought that I just managed to adopt the most ungraceful cat with Mandy. She will walk on a blanket and her nails get caught. She will walk on the couch and her nails will get caught. She will kneed something and her nails get caught.

Dandy makes Mandy look like professional ballet dancer floating across the stage. Dandy will be walking on the edge of the bed and just fall off. Holly said she seen her walking on the piano and she just fell off. The sad thing is, she is going to get bigger, much bigger. I big, clumsy cat is going to break a bunch of things.

My guess is she will break my nose with in 5 years. The problem is she is so cute.

I put baby in a corner

When I was a kid, my mom worked at Target because she wanted to buy a baby grand piano. It was something that she always wanted. I don't really know why, she wasn't any good at playing. It was probably because we had a beautiful bay window that was perfect for a baby grand.

After a year or so she saved enough. I remember when it was delivered. It was a beautiful mahogany baby with hand carving around the base. I was around six so it seemed huge!

For the first year or so we all played. I took lessons from a mean old women on the west side of St. Paul. She sold Mary Kay and smelled funny.

After my mom and dad divorced the lessons stopped. Most things stopped. The only time we would touch the piano was when it was comical and we were pretending to be lounge singers.

At 18 my mom was forced to move out of the house I grew up in. She moved in with her long-term boyfriend. He had a house that could fit in the old house a few time. There was no room so she had to put it in storage.

A few years later, my sister started moving in with boys. They had larger places so she took the piano. I always fought against it because I didn't believe in moving it around as quickly as my sister went through men.

Finally the piano made its way to the house my sister was living in with her husband. They divorced and it was messy. After a few months of back and forth, the decision was made it would live at my house until I moved out. It is so pretty and looks perfect in my living room. Plus it makes me looks super fancy. The place can look like a crap shack and people will just focus on the beautiful baby sitting in the corner. Yes, I did put baby in the corner.

It's a little bitter sweet that the picture is of Mewska sitting on it. She loved the spot because it was full of son.

Orange alert

Ok, so, I am kind of stupid. I like to drink and I have no perception of the world around me. This leads to me leaving the doors unlocked ALL-THE-TIME. Since Holly moved in I have only done it a hand full of times, but still, there was a few good months will every door leading to entering the house unlocked.

I am still here to write this completely necessarily blog post, therefore, I was not murdered. This neighborhood is uber safe. Probably more than Minnetonka or some other 'fancy' neighborhood'.

However, the previous owners did not feel the same way. They must have felt really unsafe. When I moved in there were two alarm systems. One was newer then the other, but I guess they felt safer with two.

I thought for a second to activate one, ya know, being a single lady and all. But it required a land line and that is just to archaic for me. This is 2009 and I have an iPhone. I am far too advanced for a land line.

I couldn't believe that the previous owners kept the old, nonworking alarm system around well after it was used. That is just stupid.

So a year after moving in, I am painting the kitchen and I had the choice to either paint around the main box or take it down. I took it down. Now I am completely unprotected.